Bayo Adelaja
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Research Assistant London School of Economics and Political Science b.adelaja@lse.ac.uk Telephone: 020 7852 3757 Twitter: @BayoWALM |
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Research Interests
Bayo has a BA (Hons) in English literature from Durham University and recently finished her MSc in Culture and Society at the LSE and is undertaking the MSc Health, Population and Society also at LSE this year. Before joining PSSRU, she worked at the House of Commons as a Parliamentary Assistant. She also spent some time volunteering in her local community as a community based advisor and representative for socially vulnerable people, particularly in cases concerning welfare benefits (unemployment allowance and disability benefits) and has had experience as a policy researcher at a leading public affairs company in London, and has some experience in Marketing and Communications.
Since joining PSSRU in 2013, Bayo has worked on a wide variety of projects including a report costing the impact of Dementia in the UK on behalf of the Alzheimer's Society, and a report on the costs of perinatal mental health for the Maternal Mental Health Alliance. She is currently working as part of a consortium of university researchers – ITSSOIN – on project that utilises varied types of historical data to analyse different aspects of civic engagement as they relate to social innovation in the UK, and is also involved in MODEM: modelling outcome and cost impacts of interventions for dementia, a jointly funded ESRC/NIHR project as part of the Literature Reviewing team. Her most recent project work on the efficacy of a Direct Payments programme funded through the Department of Health via the Policy Innovation Research Unit (PIRU).
Bayo's Google Scholar page can be accessed here
